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James Cook
University
Cairns Campus
6 - 9 July 2009
The 63rd
Australasian Law Teachers’ Association
Conference was proudly hosted by James Cook
University from 6-9 July 2008. The theme for
the 2008 Conference was ‘The Law, the
Environment, Indigenous Peoples: Climate for
Change?’
The Conference Welcome
Reception was held on campus on Sunday 6
July and delegates were invited to view an
art exhibition, On the Edge – Visions of
a Tropical Coastline. The formal
Conference proceedings began on Monday 7
July. Seven keynote speakers presented on
various aspects of the Conference theme
throughout the 3 day period. The keynote
speakers were Justice Nicola Pain of the New
South Wales Land and Environment Court, Mr
Stephen Keim SC, Barrister at Law, Mr Parry
Agius, Executive Officer, Aboriginal Legal
Rights Movement, Ms Nicole Watson, Jumbunna
Indigenous House of Learning, Mr Noel
Pearson, Director, Cape York Institute for
Policy and Leadership, Dr Mary Heath,
Flinders University, and Professor Sally
Kift, ALTC Senior Fellow.
As well as hearing
from the keynote speakers, delegates were
offered the opportunity to attend a wide
variety of interest group concurrent
sessions throughout the duration of the
Conference. In excess of 140 presentations
were scheduled in interest group sessions. A
big thank you to the interest group
conveners for reviewing abstracts, assisting
with the timetabling and the hosting of the
sessions.
Delegates also enjoyed two conference
dinners. The formal conference dinner,
Rainforest Elegance, kindly sponsored by
Lexis Nexis was held on the Monday evening.
On the Tuesday night delegates enjoyed fire
explosions, special effects, music and dance
as well as a buffet dinner at the Tjapukai
by Night.
The Conference would not have been possible
without the generous contributions made by
our sponsors and exhibitors – LexisNexis,
CCH Australia Ltd, The Federation Press,
Thomson Legal & Regulatory Ltd, Oxford
University Press, the Australian Learning
and Teaching Council, James Cook University
Bookshop, Kuranda Scenic Railway, Pearson
Education Australia, Skyrail Rainforest
Cableway and The University of Melbourne.
Thankyou for your generous support.
Finally, we would like to wish the 2009
Conference Committee well with their
planning and organising for this year’s
Conference.
2008 ALTA Conference Committee
School of Law, James Cook University
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